Applications of Bernoulli’s

Principle
 Demo’s:
Ping Pong Ball in funnel
Ping Pong Ball in air stream
Paper
parallel paper
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/demoweb/demomanual/matter_and_thermodynamics/fluids/bernouli_demos.h
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Note: With demos 1.5 periods

 slower speed
faster speed
more pressure less pressure
As the speed of a fluid increases,
the pressure in the fluid decreases.

P α 1/v
As the speed of a fluid increases,
the pressure in the fluid decreases.

P α 1/v
 Bernoulli & Flight
• Bernoulli’s
Principle is what
allows birds and
planes to fly.
• The secret
behind flight is
‘under the wings.’
https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?
 AIRFOIL

On top: greater air speed and

less air pressure

On bottom: less air speed and

more air pressure
 v2
v1

Net force on wing?

 LIFT

THRUST
DRAG
GRAVITY
Spoiler – airfoil reversed

less air speed

more pressure

greater air speed

less pressure

net force: downward

 Racecar

Spoiler provides better traction

and avoids lift
 Wind over a roof

Patm = Proof + ½ ρv2

v
proof

v=0
patm
slow air speed

fast air speed

Curve Ball
Golf ball dimples
Winds over a mountain
Shower Curtain
 Review

Ping pong balls?

Cardboard walls?

Paper?

Baseball?
Instability in passing – Trailers?

Trains passing each other?

Atomizer – As air passes at top of tube,
the pressure decreases and fluid is drawn up
the tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=5ltjFEei3AI&feature=related
 2009
Darwin
Award
(15 December 2009, Germany) A U2 subway driver found a body
laying besides the underground tracks in Berlin. Because there
was no video surveillance camera at that location, it took police
two days to reconstruct what had happened. Apparently Yasin
A., 22, was alone in the subway car when he decided it would be
a brilliant idea to destroy one of the windows. By swinging feet
forward from a handrail into the window, he not only managed
to burst the glass but also succeeded in being sucked out of the
moving train, and was left dead on the tracks. He was alone in
the compartment at the time; if an observer had been present,
perhaps the young underground rider would not have engaged in
destructive nonsense that led to his senseless death.